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1921
1921 - 0530.PDF
AUGUST 4, 1921 ;•' £16 10s. was paid the other day at one of Messrs. Hamer, Rooke and Co.'s stamp auctions, for the Newfoundland 3 c. ~ Hawker " Airpost " stamp. THIS year a couple of parties who attended Goodwood travelled by aeroplane. Next year, from what we hear, there is likely to be a good many following this example. \ GENERAL CHEN HUNG has been appointed Director of the Peking-Shanghai Air Service. LATELY babies seem to figure largely in matters aerial. First it was the mysterious disappearance from Paris of the ten million sterling baby heiress with her mother, Mrs. Bellaris, the wife of an alleged ex-officer in the R.A.F., and later there is to hand from Toronto an account.of the adven- tures of a two and a half years old aerial prodigy. Lorraine Ericson, the discovery in question, only seems to have missed taking charge of the joystick so far. But let the picturesque scribe speak for himself—it's a pity to spoil sport:— "Her father is a skilled pilot," so the story runs, " and little Lorraine, almost as soon as she could talk, insisted that she wanted to ' go up,' and when offered rides in a train or tram only burst into tears. " Lorraine has now flown 3,000 miles, gone through a snowstorm across Lake Ontario, and had experiences such as would thrill a seasoned aviator. She scorns the idea of fear, and says she loves flying. " Mr. Ericson now goes daily to Toronto from his home in Valhalla, Ont., 35 miles away. " His great hydroplane, Miss Toronto, is the champion of Canada. Often he takes trips to Detroit and Buffalo, and with him go Mrs. Ericson and Lorraine. " Last October he found that he would have to make a quick trip to Buffalo by night, and could not take the family. He telephoned home, however, and told his wife that one of his pilots would call in the morning for her and the baby. " The next day they started, and when they were far up they ran into a blinding snowstorm, but Lorraine did not mind it a bit. The 108 miles were covered in less than an hour, despite the atmospheric difficulties." We may expect the next to compete to start aerial life at about -ooi of a minute old. , nlly questions we laave Jbeera I.—" Hullo ! Old thing—Crashed ? "
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